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Exemplary science in informal education settings : standards-based success stories / Robert Yager and John Falk, editors

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Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
xix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Additional Creators
Yager, Robert Eugene, 1930- and Falk, John H. (John Howard), 1948-

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Contents
Introduction: Using the national science education standards for improving science education in nonschool settings / Robert E. Yager -- A burger, a beer...and a side of science / Nancy Linde -- Youth leadership at The Franklin Institute: what happened when the grant ran out / Carol A. Parssinen -- Inquiry is taking flight through Project Butterfly WINGS / Betty A. Dunckel, Kathy C. Malone, and Nikole K. Kadel -- Knowledge and wonder: engagements with light and color in the hands-on optics project / Stephen M. Pompea, Constance E. Walker, and Robert T. Sparks -- Science career ladder at the NY Hall of Science: youth facilitators as agents of inquiry / Preeti Gupta and Eric Siegel -- Curious scientific investigators solve museum mysteries / Elizabeth Wood, Rick Crosslin, Michele Schilten, and Jean Deeds -- Science with attitude: an informal science education experience / Dean Jernigan, Dana Mcillan, Katherine Patterson-Paronto, and Elaine Ceule -- Forecast: cloudy with a chance of educational reform: a new weather and water partnership offers some relief from the drought / Harry Helling, Susan Magdziarz, Jennifer Long, Melissa Laughlin, Jacqueline Kasschau, and Jessica Camp -- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo Academy: where science education comes to life! / Elizabeth A. Mulkerrin -- "MITS" you each summer / Mary C. Nash and Emily V. Wade -- Splash, flash, crank, slide, alive! Interactive standards-based science experiences for grades preK-2 at Discovery Center / Bonnie T. Ervin and Kim Cleary Sadler -- Grands are grand: a cross-generational learning experience at the North Museum of Natural History & Science / Esther D. Wahlberg -- A sea of possibilities: inspiring scientific thinking in teachers and students through charismatic research organisms at Mote Marine Laboratory / David H. Niebuhr, Elizabeth K. Metz, and James M. Wharton -- FAMILY MATH and science education: a natural attraction / Grace Davila Coates and Harold Asturias -- The body of evidence: COSI's In depth: autopsy videoconference program / Gail Wheatley and Jen Snively -- Citizen science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Rick Bonney -- Can an informal science institution really play the key role in K-12 science education reform? / Dennis Schatz -- Advancing the NSES vision through informal science education / John H. Falk -- Less emphasis/more emphasis conditions of the national science education standards.
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ISBN
9781933531090
1933531096
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Frederik and Ruth P. Rasmussen Libraries Endowment; 2012
Endowment Note
Frederik and Ruth P. Rasmussen Libraries Endowment
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